Artist Quotes - Page 64

To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagements with paint, with the nature of material, with bodily things...One wants to open the story, not close it.

There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn't been used by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

I wasn't really sold on being an artist until high school, my senior year. I was going to do the college thing originally.

I'm just a fan of all music. My family owned a record shop so I grew up taking it all in on a daily basis. I'm not a person that needs to listen to just five good artists at one point. I love whatever is dope. We all can feel what's great.

What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.

Old ladies photographed by CBS who announced that they would die of malnutrition if Reagan's bill were passed could probably have saved themselves their impending penury by the simple device of applying to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for scale every time they were featured by Dan Rather or whoever.

Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.

The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent...there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.

To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.

Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience - twenty times.

Think like an artist. Dress like an insurance salesman.

I am really the most controversial artist in the world.

If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them.